Those who gain from success are destroyed by success: success is attributed to someone or something, but it may also be destroyed by the same person and thing.

It is similar to the meaning of "success also defeats Xiao He in Xiao He". It warns people that everything has both good and bad sides, and you can get some benefits from this thing. Correspondingly, it will also bring you some unnecessary troubles and even ruin you.

It's from the classic lines of Sima Yi in The Romance of the New Three Kingdoms.

Extended information:

When Sima Yi was alive, his prestige in Wei was quite high. Even though Wu Qiujian and Wen Qin crusaded against Sima Shi after his death, Sima Yi was still praised in his campaign for "being faithful to the country, helping Wei Shi" and so on.

The history books say that it makes the world happy and happy. In the early years of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan achieved the rule of "infinite people in the world" during the Taikang period, and was passed down as Sima Yi in Sima Yu, where he was "famous in the world".

Sima Yi's famous saying:

Those who achieve great things must not break their promises, especially to villains, because villains are more dangerous than gentlemen.

If the price of being a gentleman is to be humiliated, trampled, destroyed or even killed, I would rather be an adulterer who can realize my ambition.

whenever you want to deal with someone, you must first find out what he wants most.

anyone who stays in a corner can't last long, either make progress or sit still.

In this troubled times, only the strong deserve to talk about benevolence and righteousness, and the weak have to be abandoned.

if you gain, you will be destroyed.

what is the owner? That means knowing and correcting mistakes, that is, never admitting mistakes.

using troops means using risks, and without risks, there is no victory.